--- title: Snoop Dogg Aims Gun at Donald Trump Clown in New Video description: Snoop Dogg aims a gun at a clown dressed as President Trump in a new video for "Lavender," a remix of the BadBadNotGood song canonical: https://time.com/4699851/snoop-dogg-donald-trump-clown-lavender/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-13T19:12:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:49:02.550Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Snoop Dogg Aims a Gun at a Clown Dressed as President Trump in a New Video og:description: In a clown world, Ronald Klump is president og:url: https://time.com/4699851/snoop-dogg-donald-trump-clown-lavender/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Snoop Dogg Aims a Gun at a Clown Dressed as President Trump in a New Video twitter:description: In a clown world, Ronald Klump is president twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Snoop Dogg Aims a Gun at a Clown Dressed as President Trump in a New Video by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 13, 2017 7:12 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 13, 2017 7:12 PM UTC Snoop Dogg aims a gun at a clown dressed as [President Trump](http://time.com/4697522/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-ivanka/) in a new video for “Lavender,” a remix of the BadBadNotGood song featuring Kaytranada. The video presents a world populated by clowns and stars the comedian [Michael Rapaport](http://time.com/4609263/celebrities-on-donald-trump-inauguration-performance/) as a regular clown dad, who is shot by a police officer after being pulled over for smoking marijuana — the shooting is filmed by a bystander and uploaded to ClownTube. Later, a clown-Trump, named Ronald Klump in the video, is shown on TV announcing that he wants to “deport all Doggs.” In an [interview with _Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7718241/snoop-dogg-lavender-video-donald-trump-clowns-director-jesse-wellens), Snoop Dogg offered a list of his problems with the current administration, which inspired the scenes shown in the video. “The ban that this motherf–ker tried to put up; him winning the presidency; police being able to kill motherf–kers and get away with it,” he [said](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7718241/snoop-dogg-lavender-video-donald-trump-clowns-director-jesse-wellens). “It’s a lot of clown s— going on that we could just sit and talk on the phone all day about, but it’s a few issues that we really wanted to lock into \[for the video\] like police, the president and just life in general.” Watch the video — which includes language and imagery that may not be safe for work — below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4699851/snoop-dogg-donald-trump-clown-lavender/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4699851/snoop-dogg-donald-trump-clown-lavender/"},"headline":"Snoop Dogg Aims a Gun at a Clown Dressed as President Trump in a New Video","datePublished":"2017-03-13T19:12:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:49:02.550Z","description":"In a clown world, Ronald Klump is president","url":"https://time.com/4699851/snoop-dogg-donald-trump-clown-lavender/","keywords":["Music","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4699851/snoop-dogg-donald-trump-clown-lavender/","name":"Snoop Dogg Aims a Gun at a Clown Dressed as President Trump in a New Video"}}]}] ```